Essays

The written chain of thought

Writing from Conor Bronsdon — essays and episode deep-dives on AI infrastructure, agents, and the people building all of it, drawn from the conversations on the show. New pieces land on the newsletter first.

  1. · on the newsletter ↗ Inverting the Innovator's Dilemma with Open Source AI Agents Open source flips the classic disruption story for AI agents — and changes who captures the agent layer.
  2. · on the newsletter ↗ Your AI Agent has an Amnesia Problem Agents forget everything between sessions. Why memory is becoming the next battleground in the AI stack.
  3. · on the newsletter ↗ Your AI Agents Are Drowning in Bad Context More context isn't better context. How context poisoning degrades agents — and what to do about it.
  4. · on the newsletter ↗ Block Cut 4,000 Jobs and Blamed AI. The Truth is More Complicated. Behind the headline: what Block's restructuring actually says about AI and the future of work.
  5. · on the newsletter ↗ He Named His AI Coworker MARVIN. It Runs 90% of His Day. What an agent-first working day actually looks like when a builder hands most of it to an AI coworker.
  6. · on the newsletter ↗ How Intercom Cut $250K/Month by Ditching GPT for Qwen The economics of model choice at production scale, from the conversation with Intercom's Fergal Reid.
  7. · on the newsletter ↗ The Future of AI Development ft. Gemini, Robotics & Space Where AI development heads next — Gemini, robotics, and space — from the conversation with Google DeepMind's Paige Bailey.